EP0640850A2 - Arrangement de microlentilles pour un dispositif d'affichage à cristaux liquides, méthode pour sa fixation, et dispositif d'affichage à cristaux liquides l'utilisant - Google Patents

Arrangement de microlentilles pour un dispositif d'affichage à cristaux liquides, méthode pour sa fixation, et dispositif d'affichage à cristaux liquides l'utilisant Download PDF

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EP0640850A2
EP0640850A2 EP94306348A EP94306348A EP0640850A2 EP 0640850 A2 EP0640850 A2 EP 0640850A2 EP 94306348 A EP94306348 A EP 94306348A EP 94306348 A EP94306348 A EP 94306348A EP 0640850 A2 EP0640850 A2 EP 0640850A2
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Motoyuki Suzuki
Tetsuo Uchida
Kazuo Matsuura
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  • the present invention relates to a microlens array sheet for a liquid crystal display, a method for attaching the same and a liquid crystal display equipped with the same.
  • a microlens array sheet arranged with minute unit lenses such as convex lenses and concave lenses in a plane is expected for applications to liquid crystal displays, optically coupled optical elements or image input apparatuses, and research into this has been conducted.
  • the microlens array sheets are typically classified into two types.
  • One of the types is a microlens array sheet made by forming and arranging controlled concave and convex units (minute unit lenses) on a base plate having a flat surface using fine processing technology.
  • the other is a microlens array sheet made by providing a distribution of refractive indices to appropriate minute unit portions in a planar base plate, that is, so-called flat-plate microlens array sheet.
  • liquid crystal displays usually the display is performed by utilizing an electro-optical effect of liquid crystal molecules, that is, by using a liquid crystal cell arranged with optical shutters which change ray transmittance or reflectance by utilizing an optical anisotropy (anisotropy in refractive index), orientation, flowability and dielectric anisotropy of liquid crystal molecules, and applying an electric field or sending an electric current to appropriate display units.
  • an optical anisotropy anisotropy in refractive index
  • orientation orientation
  • flowability dielectric anisotropy of liquid crystal molecules
  • the direct-sight type liquid crystal display (hereinafter, also referred to merely as “liquid crystal display” or “LCD”) has a defect that the image quality changes depending upon direction of observation. Since generally it is set so that the best image quality can be obtained when observed from a direction normal to the display surface (hereinafter "normal direction”), the image quality deteriorates as the angle between the observation direction and the normal direction becomes larger. If the angle becomes larger than a certain angle, the image quality is out of a range which an observer can accept. Namely, the liquid crystal display has a defect that the range of the angle of visibility over which a good image quality (hereinafter, also referred to merely as "angle of visibility”) can be obtained is narrow.
  • normal direction a direction normal to the display surface
  • the defect that the angle of visibility is narrow is particularly remarkable in a super twisted nematic mode, which is often applied to personal word processors or personal computers because of its excellent properties, namely that the structure is simple, the productivity is excellent and a large capacity of display is possible, or in a twisted nematic mode displaying gray scales, which is used for, for example, television receivers.
  • a twisted nematic mode displaying gray scales, which is used for, for example, television receivers.
  • any of the conventional technologies as described above still provides a poor quality display for practical use and has not yet been able to solve the problem of providing a wide angle of visibility. From our investigations we have found that in the conventional technologies there are defects such that the effect obtained for enlarging the angle of visibility is poor and/or the image quality remarkably deteriorates.
  • the so-called flat-plate microlens array sheet such as one wherein an area having a distribution of refractive index is provided in the interior of a planar base plate, for example, a glass plate, because a sufficiently large difference between refractive indexes cannot be obtained, the lens effect is insufficient, and a sufficient advantage for enlarging the angle of visibility cannot be achieved.
  • a method wherein concave and convex surfaces of respective optical elements are exposed on an observation surface of a liquid crystal display such as the conventional method for disposing plano-concave lenses, polyhedron lenses, lenticular lenses or prismatic projections of a transparent plate, not only is the effect for enlarging the angle of visibility poor, but also the display contrast ratio when the liquid crystal display is observed from the front side (from a direction normal to the observation surface), that is, the ratio of the luminance for displaying the brightest color to the luminance for displaying the darkest color, decreases.
  • the microlens array sheet may reflect the outer rays while scattering them and the whole of the image plane of the display becomes whitish, thereby deteriorating the visibility, that is, the ease with which the display can be achieved. Because this defect becomes more remarkable as the effect of the microlens array sheet for enlarging the angle of visibility is larger, it makes the technology for enlargement of angle of visibility more difficult.
  • the poor effect due to the reflection of outer rays can be reduced to a level to be ignored by increasing the luminance of a back light source of a liquid crystal display and radiating a quantity of light much larger than that of the outer rays reducing the display quality from the back side.
  • the output of the back light source is required to be larger, the features of small size, light weight, thinness and low power consumption in a liquid crystal display are lost and the use of the liquid crystal display equipped with such a back light source is considerably restricted.
  • the defect that the angle of visibility of a liquid crystal display is narrow is an important problem to be solved in relation to liquid crystal display devices, but the enlargement of the angle of visibility which can be achieved by improvement of the interior of a liquid crystal cell is limited, and a sufficient effect cannot be obtained by such an improvement.
  • microlens array sheet having a large effect for enlarging the angle of visibility and a method for attaching the microlens array sheet to a liquid crystal display and to provide a liquid crystal display equipped with the microlens array sheet which has a wide angle of visibility and enables its observation by several people at once.
  • microlens array sheet having a sufficiently large effect for enlarging the angle of visibility even under usual operating conditions in which outer rays are present, and to provide a liquid crystal display equipped with the microlens array sheet which has a wide angle of visibility and enables itsobservation by several people at once.
  • a microlens array sheet for a liquid crystal display according to the present invention comprises a first substance layer and a second substance layer having a refractive index less than a refractive index of said first substance layer.
  • the first and second substance layers are positioned between two planar surfaces parallel to each other.
  • a plurality of minute unit lenses are formed by providing concavities and/or convexities to an interface defined between the first and second substance layer.
  • a refractive angle indicated when a ray having reached the point A after entering into the microlens array sheet from a line direction normal to a surface present on the second substance layer side emerges into an atmosphere from a surface present on the first substance layer side after transmission through the first substance layer, is not less than 30 degrees in an angle relative to a line normal to the surface present on the first substance layer side.
  • Another microlens array sheet for a liquid crystal display comprises a first substance layer, a second substance layer having a refractive index less than a refractive index of the first substance layer and ray cut-off means.
  • the first and second substance layers are positioned between two planar surfaces parallel to each other.
  • a plurality of minute unit lenses are formed by providing concavities and/or convexities to an interface defined between the first and second substance layers, and the plurality of minute unit lenses are arranged in a plane.
  • the minute unit lenses are convex lenses
  • the ray cut-off means is capable of absorbing a visible ray and is formed as a sectional shape which becomes narrower in width thereof as it extends from the bottom side of the minute unit lenses toward the convex side of the minute unit lenses.
  • the convexities of the convex lenses formed on the first substance layer are located between the ray cut-off means and an adjacent ray cut-off means or at a position projecting from the tip of the ray cut-off means.
  • a further microlens array sheet for a liquid crystal display according to the present invention comprises a first substance layer and a second substance layer having a refractive index less than a refractive index of the first substance layer.
  • the first and second substance layers are positioned between two planar surfaces parallel to each other.
  • a plurality of minute unit lenses are formed by providing concavities and/or convexities to an interface defined between the first and second substance layers, and the plurality of minute unit lenses are arranged in a plane. At least tip portions of convex portions of the first substance layer in the minute unit lenses are formed from a sticky or adhesive resin.
  • a method for attaching a microlens array sheet for a liquid crystal display according to the present invention is also provided.
  • the microlens array sheet comprises a first substance layer and a second substance layer having a refractive index less than a refractive index of the first substance layer, and the first and second substance layers being positioned between two planar surfaces parallel to each other.
  • a plurality of minute unit lenses are formed by providing concavities and/or convexities to an interface defined between the first and second substance layers, and the plurality of minute unit lenses being arranged in a plane.
  • the method comprises the step of bringing tip portions of convex portions of the first substance layer in the minute unit lenses into contact with a surface of a liquid crystal cell.
  • any of the above-mentioned microlens array sheets can be used.
  • liquid crystal displays using any one of the above-mentioned microlens array sheets are provided.
  • a liquid crystal display according to the present invention uses any one of the above-mentioned microlens array sheets, and the microlens array sheet is attached to an observation surface of a liquid crystal cell in a manner such that the first substance layer is directed to an observation side and the second substance layer is directed to liquid crystal cell side.
  • Fig. 1 is a plan view of a part of a microlens array sheet according to an example of a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 2 is a side view of the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 1, as viewed along a direction of arrow II.
  • Fig. 3 is a plan view of a part of a microlens array sheet according to another example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 4 is a side view of the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 3, as viewed along a direction of arrow IV.
  • Fig. 5 is a side view of the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 3, as viewed along a direction of arrow V.
  • Fig. 6 is a plan view of a part of a microlens array sheet according to a further example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 7 is a side view of the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 6, as viewed along a direction of arrow VII.
  • Fig. 8 is a plan view of a part of a microlens array sheet according to a still further example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 9 is a side view of the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 8, as viewed along a direction of arrow IX.
  • Fig. 10 is a side view of the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 8, as viewed along a direction of arrow X.
  • Fig. 11 is a schematic vertical sectional view of a part of a microlens array sheet according to the first embodiment of the present invention, for explaining the function of the microlens array sheet.
  • Fig. 12 is a schematic perspective view of a part of a microlens array sheet according to an example of a second embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 13 is a partial vertical sectional view of a microlens array sheet according to an example of the second embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 14 is a vertical sectional view of a conventional microlens array sheet.
  • Fig. 15 is a vertical sectional view of a part of a microlens array sheet according to another example of the second embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 16 is a vertical sectional view of a part of a microlens array sheet according to a further example of the second embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 17 is a vertical sectional view of a part of a microlens array sheet according to a still further example of the second embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 18 is a schematic vertical sectional view of a part of a liquid crystal display equipped with a microlens array sheet according to an example of a third embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 19 is a schematic vertical sectional view of the liquid crystal display equipped with the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 18 for explaining paths of outer rays.
  • Fig. 20 is a schematic vertical sectional view of a part of a liquid crystal display equipped with a microlens array sheet according to the third embodiment of the present invention, for explaining an example with respect to sizes and shapes of parts thereof.
  • Fig. 21 is a schematic perspective view of a part of a liquid crystal display equipped with a microlens array sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the present invention provides typically three embodiments of microlens array sheets, methods for attaching them and liquid crystal displays equipped with them.
  • a first embodiment of microlens array sheet can provide the effect of sufficiently enlarging an angle of visibility when it is attached to a liquid crystal display.
  • the other two embodiments of microlens array sheets can provide a good visibility even under conditions in which outer rays such as rays from room lights or sunrays are present, maintaining the effect of enlarging an angle of visibility.
  • each of these three embodiments is independently capable of enlarging the angle of visibility, a better effect can be obtained by combining two or three of these embodiments.
  • the present invention is applicable to a liquid crystal display which is an image display apparatus in which an image can be directly observed at an exact size thereof, and the image is displayed by means arranged with liquid crystal optical shutters which change ray transmittance or reflectance by utilizing an electro-optical effect of liquid crystal molecules, that is, by utilizing optical anisotropy (anisotropy in refractive index), orientation, flowability and dielectric anisotropy of liquid crystal molecules, applying an electric field or sending an electric current to appropriate display elements and changing the state of orientation of the liquid crystal.
  • the "liquid crystal cell” is a body arranged with the liquid crystal optical shutters.
  • a conventional microlens array sheet such as a lenticular lens type or flat plate type microlens array sheet, as aforementioned, even if the microlens array sheet is attached to the surface of a liquid crystal cell in order to obtain a liquid crystal display with a wide angle of visibility, the effect for enlarging the angle of visibility is poor and the reduction of the image quality when observed from the front side is remarkable.
  • a microlens array sheet arranged with minute unit lenses having a sufficiently large refractive property can be obtained by disposing first and second substance layers having a sufficiently large difference in refractive index from each other between two planar surfaces parallel to each other and providing concavities and/or convexities to an interface defined between the first and second substance layers.
  • first and second substance layers having a sufficiently large difference in refractive index from each other between two planar surfaces parallel to each other and providing concavities and/or convexities to an interface defined between the first and second substance layers.
  • minute unit lenses that is, minute unit portions having a lens function
  • MLA microlens array sheet
  • minute unit lenses are arranged to form a sheet which, when viewed macroscopically, is essentially planar.
  • Each minute unit lens has respective opposite planar surfaces presented by first and second substances (though when one of the substances is a fluid, such as air or water, the surface presented thereby is defined by that of an adjacent surface of a component, such as a liquid crystal cell, to which the lens is attached).
  • the minute lenses are arranged so that at least the planar surfaces of the minute lenses provided by one substance all lie in a common plane.
  • the "minute” unit portion means, typically a sufficiently small unit portion relative to an arrangement body (MLA), and when the arrangement body comprises unit portions of not less than 100, the unit portion is defined as a minute unit portion.
  • “having a lens function” means that it is not necessary to have a predetermined focal point as an ordinary single convex lens of concave lens has; and it may have a function which can refract an entered ray in an appropriate controlled direction.
  • the minute unit lenses are formed by providing concavities and/or convexities at an interface defined between the first substance layer and the second substance layer having a refractive index less than a refractive index of the first substance layer, so that each of the minute unit lenses functions as a lens.
  • Examples of the shape of the concavities or convexities are a one-dimensional lens array sheet such as a lenticular lens wherein a plurality of curved surfaces each obtained by parallel transfer of a curved line such as an arc are arranged in one direction, and a two-dimensional lens array sheet wherein a plurality of dome-like curved surfaces each having a rectangular, triangular or hexagonal bottom surface are arranged two-dimensionally in a plane.
  • a polyhedron shape including a combination of curved surfaces and/or flat surfaces having various angles and curvatures may be present.
  • a first substance constituting the first substance layer and a second substance constituting the second substance layer are both substantially transparent substances.
  • a glass material and a transparent plastic material are preferably used as the first substance.
  • a material having a refractive index less than that of the first substance may be used, and as such a material, in addition to a glass material and a transparent plastic material, a liquid such as water and a gas such as air can be used.
  • the two layers composed of such first and second substances are positioned between two planar surfaces parallel to each other.
  • the interface between the first and second substance layers are formed as a number of concavities and/or convexities.
  • Figs. 1-10 show various shapes of microlens array sheets according to the present invention.
  • the MLAs shown in Figs. 1-10 have a first substance layer 1, a second substance layer 2, an interface 3 therebetween and planar surfaces 4 and 5 parallel to each other.
  • Figs. 1 and 2 show an example of a one-dimensional MLA in which a plurality of barrel type solids are arranged in one direction.
  • Figs. 3-5 show an example of a two-dimensional MLA in which a plurality of dome-like solids each having a hexagonal bottom are arranged two-dimensionally in a plane.
  • Figs. 6-10 show one-dimensional MLA and two-dimensional MLA in which the interfaces between the first and second substance layers are formed from continuous curved surfaces, Figs.
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 show an interface with a wave shape and Figs. 8-10 show a MLA arranged with minute unit lenses having a hexagonal shape.
  • the interface between the first and second substance layers in the unit lens has both the concavities and the convexities.
  • planar surface means a surface substantially flat relative to the interface having concavities and/or convexities which functions as lenses.
  • planar surface means a flat surface having a mean roughness Ra of not more than 1/5 of the height of the interface having concavities and/or convexities.
  • mean roughness Ra is measured according to JIS B-0601 (1994).
  • This first embodiment relates to a function of refraction of minute unit lenses constituting a microlens array sheet to obtain a sufficiently large effect for enlarging an angle of visibility.
  • the first embodiment is characterized in that a ray entering from a linear direction normal to a planar surface exits with a refractive angle of not less than 30 degrees.
  • a refractive angle indicated when a ray having reached the point A after entering into the microlens array sheet from a normal-line direction of a surface present on the second substance layer side exits into an atmosphere from a surface present on the first substance layer side after transmitting through the first substance layer, must be not less than 30 degrees in an angle relative to a line normal to the surface present on the first substance layer side (hereinafter, this angle is referred to as "a maximum refractive angle ⁇ ").
  • the above-described desired property of the minute unit lenses can be obtained by adequately combining the refractive indexes of the first and second substance layers and the shape of the interface between the first and second substance layers.
  • the refractive index of the first substance layer is preferably not less than 1.40. An angle of visibility can be sufficiently enlarged by forming the respective unit lenses to satisfy this property.
  • Fig. 11 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of a part of the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 7.
  • Unit lenses 6 are constituted by forming the interface 3 between the first and second substance layers 1 and 2 positioned between the planar surfaces 4 and 5 parallel to each other as a continuous waving surface.
  • the point which indicates a maximum angle with respect to the angle defined by the intersection of a tangent surface of the interface 3 and the surface 4 or 5 (point A) is a point 7.
  • Ray 8 entering from the line direction normal to the surface 5 of the second substance layer side reaches point 7, is refracted at point 7, and after transmission through the first substance layer 1, the ray 8 is further refracted at the surface 4 of the first substance layer side, and thereafter, it emerges into the atmosphere.
  • the angle 9 ( ⁇ ) between the ray entering direction into the second substance layer 2 and the ray exit direction to the atmosphere is not less than 30 degrees.
  • the shape and function of the respective unit lenses can be designed depending upon the characteristic of a liquid crystal display to be applied and environment of use, as described later.
  • the angle of visibility of a liquid crystal display to be applied can be sufficiently enlarged by controlling the property of the microlens array sheet within the above range.
  • the microlens array sheet can be provided with an appropriate anti-reflection property.
  • the interface defined between the above-described another layer provided on the first substance layer and the second substance layer provides an interface within the invention.
  • the methods (1), (4) and (5) are preferred from the viewpoint of the effect obtained, and further, the method (1) is particularly preferred.
  • the second embodiment of the present invention relates to a microlens array sheet in which the reflection of outer rays is small even under environment conditions providing strong outer rays, and is characterized in that ray cut-off means having a specified shape is incorporated into a microlens array sheet having specified minute unit lenses at a specified position.
  • the shape of the wave surface of the minute unit lens is formed as an optically convex shape. Namely, the shape is formed such that, as the angle defined between the minute unit lens arrangement plane of the first substance layer side composed of a higher-refractive index substance and a tangent surface of a point on the waving surface becomes larger, the waving surface approaches the minute unit lens arrangement plane of the first substance layer side.
  • the "minute unit lens arrangement plane” means a reference plane of arrangement of the concavities and/or convexities forming the interface between the first and second substance layers, and in geometrical definition, it means a flat plane which is parallel to a surface of a liquid crystal cell to be equipped with the microlens array sheet among flat planes which do not intersect the wavinq surface formed by the arranged concavities and/or convexities but contacts the waving surface.
  • the minute unit lens arrangement plane of the first substance layer side means a minute unit lens arrangement plane present on the first substance layer side among two minute unit lens arrangement planes present on both sides of the wave surface formed by the concavities and/or convexities.
  • the minute unit lens arrangement plane of the second substance layer side means a minute unit lens arrangement plane present on the second substance layer side among the two minute unit lens arrangement planes.
  • the rays emerging from the lens arrangement plane of the first substance layer side after repeating the total reflection based on the difference between the refractive indexes of the first and second substance layers at least twice, among the rays having entered from a line normal to the direction of the lens arrangement plane of the first substance layer composed of the higher-refractive index substance, can be absorbed by the ray cut-off means at the ray entrance portion of the lens arrangement plane. Further, since the rays having been transmitted through the ray cut-off means can also be absorbed again at the ray exit portion, almost all of the reflection of the outer rays can be suppressed.
  • the ray cut-off means is formed as a shape which becomes narrower in width thereof as it extends from the bottom side of the minute unit lenses toward the convex side of the minute unit lenses, the ray cut-off property (property absorbing visible rays) of the ray cut-off means becomes stronger as it approaches the edge portion of the minute unit lens where the reflection of outer rays becomes stronger, and when attached to the liquid crystal cell, the reflection of outer rays can be efficiently suppressed almost without cutting the rays for an image radiated from the liquid crystal cell, that is, without reducing the brightness of the image.
  • the sectional shape of the ray cut-off means various shapes such as a triangle, a trapezoid, a semi-circle, a reversed T shape and a shape enclosed an appropriate curve can be employed.
  • a triangle and a reversed T shape are preferred.
  • the convex of the minute unit lens is formed between the ray cut-off means or at a portion of upper side of the ray cut-off means, at least a part of the ray cut-off means is preferably brought into contact with the convex surface.
  • the width of the bottom and the height of the ray cut-off means can be determined from the property to be required and the property and the shape of the minute unit lenses. Namely, the width is preferably determined such that a ray, which has entered from a line normal to the direction of the minute unit lens arrangement plane of the first substance layer side with a higher refractive index and has reached the unit lens arrangement plane and emerges from the lens arrangement plane toward the first substance layer side after repeating a total reflection based on a difference between the refractive indexes of the first substance layer and the second substance layer with a lower refractive index at least twice, can be absorbed, as aforementioned.
  • the height and the shape are preferably determined so that the ray cut-off means does not overlap the area through which the rays radiated from the liquid crystal cell side and required for making a good image transmission.
  • the "rays radiated from the liquid crystal cell side and required for making a good image” are rays for an image radiated in a range of angle of visibility in which a good image can be obtained when the liquid crystal cell is observed (hereinafter, also referred to merely as "a range of effective angle of visibility of a liquid crystal cell”), and herein this means a range of observation directions which can obtain 1/5 of the maximum contrast ratio in an observation direction realizing a best display quality.
  • the material forming the ray cut-off means is preferably colored substantially black.
  • the optical density of the thickest portion when formed as a ray cut-off means is preferably not less than 0.5, more preferably not less than 1.0.
  • Fig. 12 shows an example of the structure of a microlens array sheet embodying the present invention.
  • Ray cut-off bodies 12 (ray cut-off means) each having a triangular section are provided on a surface 14 of a transparent plastic plate 11 in a strip-like arrangement.
  • the respective ray cut-off bodies 12 extend along the longitudinal direction of barrel type minute unit lenses 6 arranged on the plate 11 in one direction.
  • Minute unit lenses 6 are composed of a transparent plastic. Each ray cut-off body 12 is disposed between unit lenses 6 adjacent to each other.
  • the minute unit lens arrangement plane is the surface 14 of the plastic base plate 11 on which the ray cut-off bodies 12 are formed, the concave and/or convex surface the surface 3 of the barrel type lenses 6, the first substance layer is the plastic layer 1 forming the barrel type lenses 6 and the second substance layer is the air layer above the barrel type lenses 6 (not shown).
  • Fig. 13 is an enlarged sectional view of a part of a microlens array sheet corresponding to the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 12, cut along a direction perpendicular to unit lens arrangement surface 14 and parallel to the arrangement direction of the minute unit lenses.
  • Fig. 13 mainly shows a preferred shape of ray cut-off body 12 and the positional relationship between the ray cut-off bodies 12 and the plane 3 formed by the convexities of unit lenses 6.
  • Fig. 14 shows an example of a vertical section of a conventional microlens array sheet which has a shape similar to that shown in Fig. 12 but does not have ray cut-off means and is formed as a so-called usual lenticular lens.
  • rays entered from the first substance layer side as outer rays i.e., rays entering from the base flat surface
  • a ray 101 entering from the normal-line direction of the base flat surface reflects twice at the plane 3, and thereafter emerges from the base flat surface.
  • Another ray 102 reflects three times at the plane 3, and thereafter emerges from the base flat surface.
  • a total reflection occurs under a condition where, when a ray reaches an interface between a higher-refractive index substance and a lower-refractive index substance from the side of the higher-refractive index substance, an angle between a travelling direction of the ray and a line normal to the interface is not less than a critical reflection angle " ⁇ c" shown by the following equation (2).
  • ⁇ c critical reflection angle
  • the critical reflection angle ⁇ c is about 41.8 degrees, and rays reaching the plane 3 with an angle of not less than this critical angle all reflect.
  • the microlens array sheet shown in Fig. 13 is one in which the ray cut-off means are provided at such areas.
  • ray cut-off means to a one-dimensional microlens array sheet, in which minute unit lenses are arranged in one direction
  • ray cut-off means can be provided similarly to a two-dimensional microlens array sheet in which minute unit lenses are arranged in two directions.
  • Figs. 15-17 roughly show various shape and position of ray cut-off means 12 and various shapes of minute unit lenses 6.
  • the third embodiment of the present invention relates to an attachment of a microlens array sheet which can suppress the reflection of outer rays even in an environment condition of strong outer rays, and is characterized in that at least tip portions of the convex portions of the first substance layer are brought into contact with a surface of a liquid crystal cell.
  • the microlens array sheet according to the present invention comprises a first substance layer and a second substance layer having a refractive index less than a refractive index of the first substance layer, the first and second substance layers are positioned between two planar surfaces parallel to each other, and a plurality of minute unit lenses are formed at an interface defined between the first and second substance layers by providing concavities and/or convexities to the interface.
  • the angle of visibility of the liquid crystal display can be enlarged without reducing the visibility by bringing the tip portions of the convex portions of the first substance layer in the unit lenses of the microlens array sheet into contact with the liquid crystal cell and transmitting the outer rays into the interior of the liquid crystal cell.
  • a recursive reflection at the lens surface occurs as explained in Fig. 14.
  • tip portions 22 (tip areas) of convex portions of the first substance layer 1 of a microlens array sheet 52 are brought into contact with a surface 27 of a liquid crystal cell 51, a part of the first substance layer 1 is contacted directly with the surface 27 of the liquid crystal cell 51 having a relatively small difference in refractive index (that is, the refractive index of the liquid crystal cell 51 is relatively close to that of the first substance layer 1), and the condition for critical reflection shown by the aforementioned equation (2) is not satisfied at a part of the recursive reflection path.
  • the method for contacting the tip portions of the convex portions of the first substance layer of the microlens array sheet with the surface of the liquid crystal cell is not particularly restricted as long as such an anti-reflection property for outer rays can be obtained, the following specific methods will be listed from the viewpoint of case of operation.
  • the sticky or adhesive material may be any material which can closely contact the tip portions of the minute unit lenses to the observation surface of the liquid crystal cell when the microlens array sheet is attached to the liquid crystal cell.
  • a material composed of a polymeric resin composition is preferred from the viewpoint of ease of handling.
  • the resin composition is selected depending upon the sticky or adhesive property to be required in consideration of the conditions such as the degree of polymerization and the glass transition temperature of the resin.
  • a resin is not particularly limited, as typical materials, a thermoplastic resin and an ultraviolet curing type resin can be employed, and among these resins, an ultraviolet curing type resin is preferably employed from the viewpoint of ease of formation of minute unit lenses.
  • lens height (a), lens pitch (b) and width of a flat portion of the tip portion (c) preferably satisfy the following relationship. Namely, a/b is preferably in the range of 1/3 to 5/1, more preferably in the range of 1/2 to 4/1, and b/c is preferably in the range of 2/1 to 10/1, more preferably in the range of 2/1 to 5/1.
  • the second substance layer is composed of air
  • a further great effect can be obtained. Namely, the attachment of the microlens array sheet to a liquid crystal cell can be further facilitated and a great effect for enlarging an angle of visibility can be easily obtained.
  • the second substance layer is composed of a solid material such as a transparent plastic
  • the second substance layer is composed of air
  • refractive indexes of the first and second substance layers are required in order to obtain a great effect for enlarging an angle of visibility
  • refractive indexes of generally used transparent materials concentrate in a range of 1.4 to 1.6, and it is difficult to obtain a great effect for enlarging an angle of visibility by selection from these materials. Therefore, a special high or low refractive index material must be used to obtain such a great effect.
  • air is used as the second substance layer, it becomes possible to obtain a great effect for enlarging an angle of visibility even by a generally used material and the air.
  • An antistatic treatment, a hard coating treatment, an anti-reflection treatment due to an optical multi-layer thin film, and a non-glare treatment such as one performed on an observation surface of a conventional liquid crystal display can be performed as needed on a surface of the microlens array sheet according to the present invention which becomes an observation surface when attached to a liquid crystal display, for example, on the surface 4 of the first substance layer in the microlens array sheet shown in Figs. 1 to 10, or on the surface 17 opposite to the surface 14 provided with the ray cut-off means of the transparent plastic base plate 11 in the structure shown in Fig. 12.
  • the second substance layer or the tip portions of the-convex portions of the first substance layer penetrated through the second substance layer can be composed of a sticky or adhesive material, or a layer of a sticky or adhesive material can be added onto the surface of the second substance layer or the tip portions of the convex portions of the first substance layer.
  • the base plate on which the MLA is formed can be selected depending on the use, and it is not always necessary.
  • the most general method is to use a MLA sheet formed on a glass or a transparent plastic film.
  • a base plate composed of a transparent plastic film is preferred from the viewpoint of ease of handling and formation of lens surfaces.
  • a MLA also can be incorporated into a polarizing film with which a liquid crystal display is equipped.
  • a polarizing film with a MLA can be realized by using a protecting film in which the MLA is preformed, and this method is preferred because a liquid crystal display equipped with the MLA according to the present invention can be produced without adding any process to the conventional process for producing liquid crystal displays.
  • the microlens array sheet according to the present invention can be obtained by applying the conventional production process for lenticular lenses or Fresnel lenses or by a new process.
  • the process is not particularly restricted to these methods.
  • a method for charging an ultraviolet curing resin into a mold, and while transferring the resin onto a base of a plastic film, curing the resin by radiating an ultraviolet ray is preferred because a continuous production is possible and the productivity is good and further a precise processing can be performed.
  • a microlens array sheet according to the present invention can be obtained by charging the material.
  • the ray cut-off means must be provided at proper positions precisely not only relative to the whole of the microlens array but also relative to each of the microlenses.
  • a method for firstly forming the ray cut-off means on a base plate such as a plastic film by printing, photolithography or processing, then laminating a radial ray curing resin such as an ultraviolet curing resin on the surface formed with the ray cut-off means of the base, curing the portions between the ray cut-off means to be formed as minute unit lenses by radiating a radial ray such as an ultraviolet ray from the surface side of the base plate opposite to the surface formed with the ray cut-off means utilizing the radial ray cut-off property of the ray cut-off means themselves, and thereafter removing the noncured portions can be preferably employed.
  • a liquid crystal display can freely display information by a liquid crystal cell into which display elements having an appropriate shape are incorporated, and there are various types from a type wherein a single information is displayed by a single picture such as a single pictograph to a dot-matrix type which can display a large capacity of information by a liquid crystal cell in which dot display elements are arranged lengthwise and crosswise.
  • the liquid crystal display according to the present invention can be applied to any type of liquid crystal display, a great effect for enabling the observation by plural persons by enlarging an angle of visibility can be obtained particularly in a dot-matrix type liquid crystal display having a large capacity of information.
  • the liquid crystal cell means a body in which a plurality of optical shutter mechanisms are arranged as display units, and each of the optical shutter mechanisms controls ray transmittance utilizing an electro-optical effect of liquid crystal molecules, that is, a difference in optical property caused between a voltage-applied portion and a voltage-non-applied portion by changing orientation of liquid crystal molecules by applying an electric field or sending an electric current to the liquid crystal molecules having an anisotropy in refractive index and a dielectric anisotropy.
  • optical shutter mechanisms are various types of mechanisms such as a dynamic scattering mode (DS), a phase transition mode, a twisted nematic mode (TN), a ferroelectric mode, a super twisted nematic mode (STN), a polymer dispersion mode and a homeotropic mode.
  • DS dynamic scattering mode
  • TN twisted nematic mode
  • STN super twisted nematic mode
  • polymer dispersion mode a homeotropic mode.
  • Examples of the systems for driving the display elements of the liquid crystal cell there are various systems such as a segment driving system driving each cell independently, a simple matrix driving system driving each display element in a time-sharing condition, and an active matrix driving system providing a active element such as a transistor or a diode to each display element.
  • Examples of the system for observing the LCD are a reflection system for providing a reflection layer with a ray reflection property on the back surface of the LCD and observing an image by reflecting rays entering from the front surface side at the reflection layer, and a transmission system for providing a light source on the back side of the LCD and observing an image by transmitting the rays radiated from the light source through the LCD. Further, there is a system combining both of the above systems.
  • the liquid crystal display according to the present invention can be constituted by appropriately combining the above-described displaying systems (mechanisms), driving systems and observation systems. Among these combinations, a transmission type simple matrix driving super twisted nematic mode, transmission type active matrix driving twisted nematic mode, or reflection type simple matrix driving super twisted nematic mode liquid crystal display is preferred to obtain a great effect according to the present invention.
  • the problem that an angle of visibility is narrow can be solved without reducing the display quality of a liquid crystal display by providing the MLA described in the above at the observation surface side of a liquid crystal cell.
  • the change of an image quality of a liquid crystal cell due to the change of the observation direction occurs also by rotating the observation direction around a line normal to the observation surface of the liquid crystal cell even if the angle defined between the observation direction and the line normal to this direction is constant.
  • the angle of visibility changes generally depending upon the direction of movement of the observation direction from the front of the cell (from the line normal to the direction of the observation surface of the liquid crystal cell), for example, depending upon upward movement, downward movement, lefthand movement or righthand movement.
  • a liquid crystal display having a further high display quality can be obtained by designing the angles of visibility of the liquid crystal cell in a plurality of directions to have different values to each other, or by designing the functions of the lenses in a plurality of directions relative to the direction to be enlarged in angle of visibility to have different properties to each other.
  • the enlargement of the angle of visibility in all of the upward, downward, righthand and lefthand directions can be also achieved by stacking two or more one -dimensional microlens array sheets such that the lens arrangement directions thereof are set perpendicular to each other.
  • the size and position of the unit lens in the MLA according to the present invention can be designed depending on the size of the display element of the liquid crystal cell.
  • the liquid crystal display is a dot matrix system
  • the latter embodiment is preferred because a precise positional adjustment is not necessary, the same MLA can be used for cells having different dot sizes, and therefore the productivity can be increased.
  • preferably four or more unit lenses correspond to a single display element, and more preferably eight or more unit lenses correspond to a single display element.
  • N N / (L/1)
  • N N / (A/a)
  • N N / (L/1)
  • N N / (A/a)
  • N the total number of unit lenses present on the display surface of the liquid crystal display
  • L is the length of the liquid crystal cell in the direction of unit lens arrangement direction of the one-dimensional MLA
  • "1" is the length of the portion contributing to the display in a single display element of the liquid crystal cell in the lens arrangement direction
  • A is the area of the display surface of the liquid crystal display
  • "a” is the area of the portion contributing to the display in a single display element of the liquid crystal cell.
  • the MLA is preferably attached to a liquid crystal cell as closely as possible so that the reduction of the display quality such as resolution and contrast can be suppressed. More specifically, the distance between the cell surface and the closest point of the MLA is preferably not more than 1.0 mm, more preferably not more than 0.5 mm, and further more preferably not more than 0.1 mm.
  • liquid crystal display according to the present invention is a transmission type liquid crystal display, preferably not less than 80% of the beams from the back light source is radiated within the range of effective angle of visibility of a liquid crystal cell incorporated thereinto.
  • the range of effective angle of visibility of a liquid crystal cell is a range of angles of visibility at which a good image quality can be obtained when the liquid crystal cell is observed, and in this case, it means a range of observation directions which can obtain 1/5 of the maximum contrast ratio in an observation direction realizing a best display quality.
  • the liquid crystal display according to the present invention acts in such a way, due to the respective unit lenses of the microlens array sheet such that the beams transmitted in the directions indicating a bad image quality of the liquid crystal cell are refracted, thereby preventing them from giving a bad effect upon the observation, and the beams transmitted in the directions indicating a good image can be observed from various directions, then when using a back light source with no directivity, which has been generally used in the past, the beams radiated with a large angle relative to the line normal to the direction. of the display surface are not utilized. Accordingly, the beams radiated from a back light source can be effectively utilized by providing a directivity to the radiated beams from the light source.
  • the other advantage is that the blur of the displayed image can be prevented.
  • the microlens array sheet is attached to the observation surface of the liquid crystal display desirably in a condition approaching to the liquid crystal cell as closely as possible in the present invention, because generally there is provided a distance corresponding to a thickness of a base plate for charging a liquid crystal or a thickness of a polarization element between the display elements of the liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal cell and the lens surface of the microlens array sheet, it is often difficult to bring the microlens array sheet sufficiently close to the liquid crystal cell. Therefore, the beams having been transmitted through one display element of the liquid crystal cell reach not only the unit lens portion corresponding to the display element but also unit lens portions positioned slightly apart away from the corresponding unit lens portion.
  • the outline of a certain single display element of the liquid crystal cell is observed so that it becomes fuzzy and as if it is enlarged, by the operation of the unit lens portions around the corresponding unit lens portion, and therefore, the displayed image is blurred.
  • a back light source having a directivity is used, even if there is a slight distance between the display element portions of the liquid crystal layer and the lens surface of the microlens array sheet, because the beams having transmitted through the display element portions have a directivity, the beams reach mainly only the corresponding unit lens portions, and therefore, the displayed image does not blur.
  • a slight blur of the displayed image may be preferred or required depending upon the use of the liquid crystal display. In such a case, it is possible to meet this requirement by, for example, control of the directivity of the back light source.
  • p indicates a length of a display element of a liquid crystal cell in a lens arrangement direction, in other words, an arrangement pitch of the display elements.
  • p indicates a length of a display element of a liquid crystal cell in a lens arrangement direction, in other words, an arrangement pitch of the display elements.
  • the liquid crystal cell forms one dot with a plurality of pixels for a purpose such as color display, the one dot is defined as the display element.
  • “d” (mm) indicates a distance from a liquid crystal layer to the unit lens arrangement plane of the second substance layer side of a microlens array sheet.
  • ⁇ indicates an angle defined between the direction indicating the maximum luminance and a direction in which half of the maximum luminance is indicated when the determination direction is inclined from the maximum luminance direction toward the unit lens arrangement direction in a point on the back light source (hereinafter, this angle is also called “a directional angle of a back light source”).
  • a back light source having a directivity may be obtained, for example, by a method using means for providing a directivity to the beam radiated from a light source such as a fluorescent tube such as a Fresnel lens or a Fresnel prism, a method for using a multi-reflector combining minute reflective surfaces as a reflection mirror, and a method using means for absorbing unnecessary beams by an optical fiber sheet or louver.
  • a light source such as a fluorescent tube such as a Fresnel lens or a Fresnel prism
  • a method for providing a prism array sheet arranged with minute unit lenses or minute prisms in the form of a sheet to a luminous surface of a back light source near to a liquid crystal cell is preferred from the viewpoints of effectively utilizing the beams radiated from a light source such as a fluorescent tube and easily achieving a thin and light-weight structure.
  • Methods for attaching the MLA to a liquid crystal cell are those such as a method for attaching the MLA by using a MLA sheet prepared by providing the MLA on a plastic film, a method for forming the MLA directly on a liquid crystal display, and a method for using a polarization film attached to the MLA.
  • the MLA formation surface is set to the liquid crystal cell side in order that the MLA may approach the liquid crystal cell as closely as possible. A great effect for enlarging the angle of visibility can be obtained by such an attachment. Further, since the surface opposite to the MLA formation surface is an observation surface, a surface treatment such as a non-glare treatment or a surface hardening treatment which has been applied to a surface of a conventional liquid crystal display can be applied to the observation surface.
  • the method for fixing the MLA sheet to the liquid crystal cell may be either a method for stacking the MLA sheet onto the liquid crystal cell and fixing it at several points of the edge portions thereof or a method for bonding the MLA sheet to the liquid crystal cell by applying an adhesive on the surface of the display or over the entire surface of the MLA sheet. Further, the fixing can also be achieved by forming at least tip portions of the convex portions of the second or the first substance layer of the MLA sheet with a material having a sticky or adhesive property, and fixing the MLA sheet utilizing the sticky or adhesive property.
  • the liquid crystal display according to the present invention needs a liquid crystal cell and a microlens array sheet as inevitable elements, but the method for producing it is not particularly restricted. Namely, since the liquid crystal cell used in the present invention is one utilizing an electro-optical effect of liquid crystal molecules similar to that in a conventional liquid crystal display, the conventional method for producing the liquid crystal display can be employed as it is.
  • Fig. 21 shows an example of a structure of the liquid crystal display according to the present invention.
  • a microlens array sheet 52 according to the present invention which composed of the first substance layer 1 and the second substance layer 2 having a refractive index less than that of the first substance layer 1 is attached to the observation surface of a liquid crystal cell 51 provided on a base plate 53 so that the first substance layer side becomes an observation side.
  • microlens array sheets were prepared using an ultraviolet curing resin (refractive index after curing: 1.46) having a stickiness even after curing.
  • the ultraviolet curing resin layer is the first substance layer composed of a high-refractive index substance
  • the air around the first substance layer is the second substance layer composed of a low-refractive index substance.
  • the plane which is the interface defined between the polyester film being formed as a base material and the ultraviolet curing resin layer, and the plane of the surface of the liquid crystal cell attached with the MLA are the planar surfaces parallel to each other as required by the present invention between which the first and second substance layers are positioned.
  • a photomask having a stripe-like pattern (repeat of the width of ray cut-off portion of 45 ⁇ m and the width of ray transmitting portion of 5 ⁇ m) was prepared, and after applying a black paste having an ultraviolet curing property (an ultraviolet curing type acrylic resin added with carbon black and black color) onto a transparent polyester film treated for providing a good adhesive property (produced by Toray Industries, Inc., thickness: 100 ⁇ m) uniformly with a thickness of 30 ⁇ m, the photomask was brought into contact with the back surface of the applied surface and an ultraviolet ray was radiated from a high pressure mercury lamp.
  • an ultraviolet curing property an ultraviolet curing type acrylic resin added with carbon black and black color
  • each ray cut-off means was nearly an isosceles triangle the width of the bottom of which contacting with the base film was 15 ⁇ m, the height of which was 20 ⁇ m, and in which the sides were depressed towards the inside of the triangle.
  • An ultraviolet curing resin composition prepared by adding an ultraviolet absorbent to the ultraviolet curing resin used in part (1) above to provide a lens shape formation property was applied onto the surface formed with the ray cut-off means of the obtained film having the ray cut-off means, in a condition of a reference plane of the base film surface at a thickness of 60 ⁇ m.
  • an ultraviolet ray was radiated from the entire surface opposite to the surface applied with the ultraviolet curing resin, and the portions to be formed as the first substance layer were selectively cured utilizing the ultraviolet absorbing property of the ray cut-off means. At that time, changing the intensity of the radiation of the ultraviolet ray, microlens array sheets having different lens heights were made.
  • Non-cured portions were removed by dissolving them with an organic solvent from the obtained sheets, and the microlens array sheets each having a section shape shown in Fig. 15 according to the second embodiment of the present invention were obtained.
  • the maximum refractive indexes thereof are also shown in Table 1.
  • These microlens array sheets obtained are shown in Table 1 as Examples 3, 5, 7 and 8.
  • Microlens array sheets prepared in the above (1) and (2) were used, and when the minute unit lenses were formed from a sticky resin, the sheet was attached to the surface of observation side of a liquid crystal cell utilizing the stickiness thereof, and when formed from non-sticky resin, the sheet was stacked on a liquid crystal cell and it was fixed by pressing it by a hard acrylic plate provided thereon and having a thickness of 2.0 mm.
  • the liquid crystal displays according to the present invention and the comparative liquid crystal displays were obtained.
  • a liquid crystal cell with no microlens array sheet that is, a conventional liquid crystal display was prepared.
  • the arrangement direction of unit lenses of a microlens array sheet was set to an up and down direction of a display surface in any case. Further, except Comparative Example 3, the microlens array sheet was attached in a condition of directing the second substance layer side, i.e., the air layer side to the liquid crystal cell side. In Comparative Example 3, although the microlens array sheet used was the same as that of Example 1, changing the direction of the attachment, the microlens array sheet was attached in a condition of directing the first substance layer side, i.e., the polyester film base plate side to the liquid crystal cell side.
  • liquid crystal cell As the liquid crystal cell used, two types of liquid crystal cell were prepared (Examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 and Comparative Examples 1, 2 and 3).
  • the other was a TFT active matrix color liquid crystal cell using a twisted nematic mode (hereinafter also called "TFT cell”).
  • the size of the display surface is about 9.5 inch in diagonal
  • the number of the display elements is 480 in the vertical direction and 640 in the horizontal direction
  • the dot pitch is 290 ⁇ m and it is equipped with a back light.
  • a back light having a directivity of 15 degrees in directional angle thereof to the surface of which a prism array sheet was attached was prepared. This back light was substituted for the back light having no directivity which has been attached to the STN cell or the TFT cell to prepare another type of liquid crystal display (Example 8).
  • an image constructed from two gradations of black and white and in the case of the TFT cell, an image constructed from three gradations including gray indicating an exact intermediate transmittance (50%) between black and white in addition to black and white, were displayed, respectively, and in a condition where the image was observed from the upper side and the lower side relative to a zero degree direction of the line direction normal to the display surface, the change in the observation was determined.
  • the observation was performed in a dark room, and when the observation direction was gradually inclined from the line normal to the direction at a pitch of five degrees, the determination of the angle was continued until an angle at which the displayed image was not recognized or an angle at which the gradations were turned over.
  • the ratio of the luminance of the portion displaying white to the luminance of the portion displaying black when observed from the front ( from the line normal to the direction of the display surface) was defined as front contrast ratio.
  • the contrast ratio sometimes greatly changes even at a slight change of angle depending upon the structure of the liquid crystal cell
  • the average value of the contrast ratios determined at five points of -10 degrees, -5 degrees, 0 degree, +5 degrees and +10 degrees in observation direction was defined as the front contrast ratio.
  • the maximum contrast ratios thereof are maintained at a value not less than a value required for displaying a photographic image, for example, not less than 40 in a TFT cell.
  • a liquid crystal display having a large angle of visibility of which reduction of image quality observed from the front is also suppressed and of which deterioration of image quality can be prevented actually even in a large-capacity and high-definition display such as one used in the Examples, can be obtained by using the back light having a directivity.

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